💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

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Guys, I found a leaked plot for Alex Ze Pirate:

In this thrilling tale of AzP, the crew embarks on a glorious adventure in the land of Spacekatopolous. While there, Lesbian Kick and That One Straight Pirate come across Lady Wusami, the princess of Spacekatopolous and a proud trans warrior leading a new generation of female warriors in Spacekatopolus. She is introduced to the rest of the crew with open arms but OH NO, the capital of Revolutilantis is beset upon by the sexist marauders of Gametatorship, led by their leader, General Gaymater Gate. Alex and Wusami must join forces and confront the evil marauders at the Twatter Plains and put an end to their mischief, or the world will be forever lost to insensitivity.

Oh, and there's some threesome between Wusami, Alex, and Lesbian Kick and a bike pump is the national standard of Alex's crew or some shit.
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dollarhuviya dijo:
Alex Ze Pirate world building, courtesy of Dobby's Patreon.

So this is something I've been working on for a while now. Building the Alex Ze Pirate world. This is about 1/18th of the full map, so I have a LONG way to go still...

Sapphos is where Alex Ze Pirate and crew live, off on an island near Wildelands.

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>Sarkeesland
>Anita Hall
Really? Ffs, that actually made me groan.
I'm wondering there's no Wucester or Briannapleaselovemeton...
Also, I have a feeling the "White Watch Tower" will turn out to be some really lame and hamfisted SJW-thing...

I see Dobs likes his worlds/maps just as he likes his women:
Blown completely out of proportion. If this is 1/18th of the map, this thing is huge.

The names in general are a mismatching hodgepodge, partially fake gaellic-sounding words mixed with regular english and faux-"different culture"-esque names - heck, even a german surname. Unless 50 different tribes with entirely different cultures and languages have decided to all randomly settle exactly there for no discernable reason, this doesn't really make a lot of sense. It's a rather common issue with Fantasy lore, you'll find little villages with really mundane, down-to-earth names exactly next to places with names seemingly taken right from Star Wars. No way is there going to be a place called "Hapfree Forest" next to "Solsectur Hreinsa".

On the other hand: why? It seems he's putting so much work on rather unnecessary worldbuilding, granted it's better to have this whole thing thought out, but does he really need such a huge map all thought out? Especially since you have to ask yourself "How large does the setting have to be?", you can't just cobble together a Pangea-sized continent and hope it'll make for a good setting. What I'm trying to say is: It seems to me Dobson is putting some effort into making this map, which is okay, I guess, but in terms of necessity, why does he need it? Is Alex going to tour this entire thing? Wouldn't a smaller but "tighter" map do much better?

I know some people that do the same, when they are worldbuilding for our mutual hobby. They seem to think "Bigger is better" and "just mix everything you like into it!", so you end up with a pseudo-medieval setting with steam-powered trains and a continent with a size that dwarves Eurasia - cause that'll make the world interesting and relevant, right?

PS: I'm baffled Dobshire isn't closer to Sarkeesland.
 
Dudeofteenage dijo:
Well, sometimes world-building can be a source of ideas, even if you don't actually use the places you map out.
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Yeah, but you still have to be economical about it. If there's places you'll never explore, the lore might still be relevant. But if you never present the reader with either the place, its lore or its people, you might as well just skip going into detail with it. [edit] Well, at least in this case, since it's pretty transparent that Dobson isn't going to have the places influence each other culturally, so their existence is rather pointless.[/edit]

There's no denial, Dobby is laying the foundation for a spectacularly bad comic reboot, and I'm loving it.
You just know there'll be hamfisted attempts to shoehorn SJW-rants into the whole thing. You just know, it'll be infused with Dobson's fetishes (it already is, with places like "Sapphos").
As if one could have any doubt: He doomed the whole thing from the start. Who would ever want to read a comic that neglects its plot in favor of awkward social commentary?

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Also, I just realized, the borders are really unnatural. Usually, Borders follow the landscape, they go along mountains and rivers, across the country they are never straight lines (unless in the USA, but that those are less like national borders and more like administration districts).

The reason is rather simple: You can't just conquer three quarters of a mountain and set up a border on the ridge somewhere. Basically, borders follow easy to defend landmarks.

This map might be a rough draft and in general, it's not that big a deal, but it would look a lot nicer if the borders didn't make this map look like it was taken from a themepark.
 
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Stud2Stud dijo:
Also, I just realized, the borders are really unnatural. Usually, Borders follow the landscape, they go along mountains and rivers, across the country they are never straight lines (unless in the USA, but that those are less like national borders and more like administration districts).

The reason is rather simple: You can't just conquer three quarters of a mountain and set up a border on the ridge somewhere. Basically, borders follow easy to defend landmarks.
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Oh, you could explain that through history: Assume two countries were at war for decades and finally they negotiate peace, since both kingdoms know that the war is slowly destroying their lands and neither of them will win. After months of discussing the how the border should look like, they define what belongs to whom with one sharp line on the map.

That is exciting! That is world building! What was the war about? Who were the kings that negotiated the peace? That are thoughts that make me exited! That is the way how you flesh out a background!

I mean, there is no way that Dobson simply slapped a few punny names on a random map and then called it a day and... *bursts into laughter* ...sorry, sorry. We all know that is probably exactly what he did.
 
While straight line borders do exist IRL, not only are they usually the product of negotiated settlements over relatively lightly populated land (another good example are the Iraqi-Saudi borders), they are also the product of precise measurement tools which fantasy realms wouldn't have. You can say "the border is a straight east-west line running from X point" but unless you have quite sophisticated surveying equipment it will be impossible to translate that to a reality on the ground.
 
Those straight borders become even funnier when you think of Dobson's way of being terribly afraid of any kind of conflict. With straight borders drawn across some plain or forest with no actual terrain features to support the division, there would very likely be constant clashes between border patrols, over-eager settlers pushing their luck and bands of raiders escaping the law by skipping border.
 
Wood Glue dijo:
Those straight borders become even funnier when you think of Dobson's way of being terribly afraid of any kind of conflict. With straight borders drawn across some plain or forest with no actual terrain features to support the division, there would very likely be constant clashes between border patrols, over-eager settlers pushing their luck and bands of raiders escaping the law by skipping border.
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No, that would be clever social/political commentary and could actually be a very funny premise. Dobson, dosen't do either of that.

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Ass Manager 3000 dijo:
can anyone fill me in on what this means-
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It's from a JonTron video.
 
A few years ago there was a Tumblr blog that chronicled various toilets in video games.

So this is a typical example of Dobson trying to do something that all the cool kids are doing to get asspats, and also being stuck in the past. He'll be making a bunch of Chuck Norris jokes next.
 
Looking incessantly for toilets on Skyrim, while moving his in-game family because of "bullying" and all of this while running the game at a glorious 10 frames-per-second.

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